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On a day billed as "Solidarity Sunday," Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Amazon workers in New York City less than 24 hours before they start casting ballots on whether to form a union, after which Sanders departed to Richmond, Virginia to talk with Starbucks workers who have been organizing coffee shops around the nation.

"If Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, he can afford to pay his workers at Amazon decent wages, decent benefits, and provide good working conditions."

As Donald Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election he lost, his conspiracy theories are finding a home in some white, Evangelical churches, The New York Times reported Sunday.

"Evangelical churches have long been powerful vehicles for grass-roots activism and influence on the American right, mobilized around issues like abortion and gay marriage. Now, some of those churches have embraced a new cause: promoting Donald J. Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen," the newspaper reported. "They have opened their church doors to speakers promoting discredited theories about overturning President Joe Biden’s victory and lent a veneer of spiritual authority to activists who often wrap themselves in the language of Christian righteousness. For these church leaders, Trump’s narrative of the 2020 election has become a prominent strain in an apocalyptic vision of the left running amok."

Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-MI) on Sunday warned that the Democratic National Committee is not doing enough to prevent Trump allies from winning key races in battleground states that will oversee the 2024 election.

Nessel was interviewed by MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin after Kalamazoo lawyer Matt DePerno was endorsed for attorney general by Michigan Republican Party delegates. The Michigan GOP also endorsed Kristina Karamo for secretary of state.

Democrats in Congress need to take immediate action to fix the 1807 Insurrection Act so that guardrails prevent abuse of the act before America has another authoritarian president, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation argued on Saturday.

"We should always take note when Congress discovers that a long-standing law doesn’t address our current reality. But when those members of Congress happen to be sitting on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and they are privy to a mountain of evidence related to the planning and execution of a purported plot to overturn a presidential election, they should have our undivided attention," Frank Figliuzzi argued. "According to an April 19 report in The New York Times, that committee is considering whether the 1807 Insurrection Act needs revision."

According to a report from the Detroit News, a far-right conservative radio host who is running for a seat in the state Senate as a Democrat, recently told listeners that he thinks families should be all white.

Last week "Trucker Randy" Bishop, who previously chaired the Antrim County Republican Party filed to run for a seat representing the 37th state Senate District as a Democrat.

According to the Guardian's Julian Borger, the ruling family in Saudi Arabia is keeping its distance from President Joe Biden and his administration when it comes to mitigating the damage Russia is inflicting on Ukraine because they're hoping for the return of Donald Trump.

Noting that Mohammed bin Salman, the "kingdom’s de facto ruler," reportedly refused to take a call from Biden and that the kingdom handed over $2 billion to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's fledgling investment fund, Borger suggested the Saudis would prefer dealing with the former president and his inner circle.

The United States' top diplomat and defense chief were Sunday set to make their first wartime visits to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago, with fierce fighting casting a long shadow over Orthodox Easter.

The trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin comes as the war enters its third month with thousands dead and millions displaced.

“It’s amazing to think how far our country has fallen in just 15 months,” Pence told delegates and others who gathered at the Republican 4th Congressional District convention in Carroll. “Joe Biden has done more damage to America in his first year and a half than any president in my lifetime. … The good news is, despite all the setbacks we’ve seen in the last year and a half, the Republican Party is fighting back all across America and all across Iowa.”

Pence, who ended his tenure with former President Donald Trump at odds over the validity of the 2020 election they lost, touted the former administration’s role in packing the federal court system — including the U.S. Supreme Court — with conservative judges, backing abortion foes and reinforcing the “strongest military in the history of mankind.”